• Timely for us, the Sci-Fi roots of The Road (via The Elegant Variation)
• Booker winner Aravind Adiga sacked his agent
• How to find a copy of The Jewel of Medina…just ask
• Author Milan Kundera and the unbearable heaviness of accusations (via Bookslut)
• Toni Morrison reading from her new book in four parts

Also:

Congratulations to Ingrid Paulson, our winner of the covers contest, for her inspired rebranding of The Road. She made most of the rest of us look like amateurs. Oh wait, we are!

As you read in George’s post yesterday, my co-blogger Andrew Pyper never did make it out of hair and make up. He won’t be able to join us this week, which is a shame as I was looking forward to teasing him mercilessly. And his reasons have nothing to do with the pimple. He will be thought of and missed.

Speaking of Mr. Murray, thank you to all who sent in reports of George sightings ‘in Ontario‘ yesterday. While I appreciate the diligence, none of the sightings quite rang true. I can’t think why George would be in a pink unitard in Wawa, or how he would have lugged a tuba all the way to Kenora. Only one tipster was able to offer hard evidence, but I’m having trouble making a positive I.D. George, is that you?